Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Stephens film series features heroes of capitalism

THIS IS CAPITALISM: Illustrations from the new website that includes films on featured capitalists.

Kyle Massey at Arkansas Business reports on an announcement today that Warren Stephens, the CEO of Stephens Inc. (and big GOP contributor we mentioned earlier today), has produced a film series and related media, "This is Capitalism."

Stephens explains that capitalism has gotten a bad rap.

“No other economic system has lifted more people out of poverty than capitalism,” he said. “It is why America today serves as the gold standard across the globe. It is time to reclaim the term…

It was not even 24 hours ago that Sophia Said, director of the Interfaith Center; City Director Kathy Webb and others decided to organize a protest today of Donald Trump's executive order that has left people from Muslim countries languishing in airports or unable to come to the US at all — people with visas, green cards,a post-doc graduate student en route to Harvard, Google employees abroad, families. I got the message today before noon; others didn't find out until it was going on. But however folks found out, they turned out in huge numbers, more than thousand men, women and children, on the grounds of the state Capitol to listen to speakers from all faiths and many countries.

UAMS, pressed by financial problems for several years, told the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees today that it had a $1.5 billion operating budget that doesn't call for deficit spending.

Arkansas Court of Appeals Judge Bart Virden of Morrilton, who narrowly survived attack ads by an outside partisan group supporting his opponent for re-election to a nonpartisan seat, doesn't intend to let the matter drop.

Enjoy these photos from today's dedication and re-installation of a new Ten Commandments monument. The first iteration of the monument was installed last June but destroyed within the next 24 hours when it was rammed by a man in a Dodge Dart.